Marie Moravcova

Marie Moravcova (24 August 1898-17 June 1942) was a Czechoslovakian woman who assisted the Operation Anthropoid assassins in 1942.

Biography
Marie Moravcova was born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (present-day Czech Republic) on 24 August 1898, and she later married Alois Moravec and had a son, Vlastimil (nicknamed "Ata"). They lived in a nice apartment, with their son becoming a violinist. During World War II, she sheltered Czechoslovakian army parachutists Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis in her apartment as they planned out Operation Anthropoid - the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich - and she had her maid Marie Kovarnikova assist them as well. In June 1942, Gestapo agents showed up at her apartment after Karel Curda betrayed the resistance, and Moravcova's husband and son were arrested. She asked the Gestapo agents if she could clean herself up before being taken in for questioning, and she bit on a cyanide capsule in the bathroom, killing herself. The Nazis later severed her head and used it to intimidate her son into betraying the resistance.